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W. M. ROWELL. MACHINE POR BUDDING TREES.

No. 449,591. Patented Mar. 31,1891.

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WILLIAM M. ROVVELL, OF FORT MEADE, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES A. HARRIS, OF CITRA, FLORIDA.

MACHINE FOR BUDDING TREES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,591, dated March 31, 1891.

Applioationiled February 4, 1890. Serial No. 339,149. (Model.)

T0 all whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. ROWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Meade, in the county of Polk and State of Florida, have invented a new and useful Machine for Budding Trees,of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to a machine for budding trees to be used in propagation.

Among the objects in view are to provide a machine of comparatively cheap and simple construction adapted to insert buds into the bark of plants without bruising the same and in such a manner as to readily grow thereto and so that the wound of the bark may readily heal.

Heretofore it has been the practice to puncture the barks of trees or plants in a transverse manner and insert the buds therein by hand. The contact of the hand with the bud was injurious to the latter and, together with the handling it received during its insertion, greatly bruised and inj urcd the delicate bud, so that the latter. in a large percentage of instances, turned out badly.

-Vith the above objects in view, and in order to obviate the objections mentioned, the invention consists in a device to be used by hand, terminating at one end in a pointed bud-receiving and bark-cutting cap, a reciprocatin g plunger mounted therein and adapted to eject the bud therefrom, and in a mechanism for operating the plunger.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a machine constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, one of the plates being removed and portions being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the budreceiving and bark-perforating cap.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

In practicing my invention I prefer for the purpose of convenience to construct the machine somewhat after the shape of a pistol, and the same consists of a case 1 of the shape of a stock of a pistol, the same comprising a rear grip portion 2, a trigger-guard 3, and a forward neck 4. The grip and guard portions are provided with a ange 5, disposed at a right angle therefrom, and over the flange and conforming in shape to the casing is a removable plate 6, which is secured to the casing by screws 7, inserted at convenient points. lnclosing the neck portion of the casing is the inverted-U-shaped hood or cap 10, the forward end of which is sharpened, as at 11, and the under edges of which are curved and tapered to agree with the neck 'or' the casing, to which latter the same is secured by a pair of set-screws 13, the edges of which are milled, whereby they may be readily removed by hand and different forms 0f hoods or caps substituted. By the combining of the hood or cap with the 4neck there is formed intermediate the two aV channel 14, which in cross-section agrees with the character of bud to be employed. Each of the machines is provided with a series or number of caps or hoods which vary in respect to the shape of the channel, so that different hoods or caps are adapted for different species of buds, as will be readily understood,

A plunger 15, of which there are a number agreeing in cross-section withthe various channels,is provided at its rear end with a transverse plate or head 16, having a cam-slot 17. Upon a pintle 18, passing through the casing 1 and its covering-plate, there is an ordinary pivoted hammer 19, the front endof which isbifurcated, as at20, to embrace the plate of the plunger, and through the slot ot' the plate and the bifurcations of the hammer there is passed a removable thumb-screw 2l. The lower portion of the hammer is provided with a series of teeth 22, and above its pivot and teeth terminates in a headed projection 23, which is embraced by the bifurcated end of a spring 24, serving to maintain the hammer in alowered position, the opposite end of the spring being secured Within the casing, as at 25. Upon a pintle or bearing-pin 27 there is mounted a trigger 28, the upper end of which is designed to engage a tooth of the hammer, the upper end of said trigger being maintained in operative contact with the tooth of the dog by means of a spring 29, one end of which is secured within the casing and the other end of which terminates against the rear face of the trigger.

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The manner of using my machine is as follows: Tue hammer is raised so that it is supported in position against the tension of its springby means of a trigger. As the hammer is drawn back in a like manner is the plunger moved to the rear, thus permitting a bud to be inserted into the opening 10X, formed in the cap. The pointed end of the cap is then introduced into the bark of the tree or plant and the upper end or point of the cap slightly raised and the trigger pulled, which releases the hammer and through the medium of the plunger the bud is discharged into the puncture made by the cap or hood. In this Inanner any number of buds may be inserted with greatrapidity and with all the advantages above mentioned. In operation the hammer strikes before the bottom of the plunger, thereby saving the threads of the screw.

The opening 10X, formed in the top of the cap l0, permits of the insertion of the bud point first, and thus obviates any injury to the bud.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. In a machine for the purpose described, the combination, with a casing terminating at one end in a hand-grip and at the other end in a tapered neck, ot a removable U-shaped cap or hood mounted over the neck and terminating in a point and provided with a budreceiving channel, a plunger mounted in the channel and of a contour in cross section agreeing therewith and terminating at its rear end in a plate havinga cam-slot, a springpressed hammer pivoted in the casing and having its hammer end bifurcated and embracing thc slotted plate, and a set-screw passing through the slot and the bifurcations o' the hammer, and a trigger 'for locking and releasing the hammer, a spring for pressing the same, and a pivot for supporting it, substantially as specified.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination, with a case, of a removable tapered cap or hood secured to one end of the same and havingan internal channel or bore, a plunger corresponding in shape to and mounted in the bore, and mechanism for operating the plungerand removably connected therewith, substantially as specified.

3. In a machine of the class described1 the combination, with a case, of a removable tapered cap or hood secured to one end of the same and having an internal channel or bore, and a bud-receiving slot in the top thereof, a plunger mounted in the bore, and mechanism for operating the plunger, substantially as specified.

4. In a machine of the class described, the case forming a handgrip and inclosing the trigger mechanism, t-he plunger having the cam-slot at its rear end acted upon by the trigger mechanism. and the removable tapered cap or hood secured to the case and having an internal channel for the passage of the plunger, and a bud-receiving channel at the top, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

lVILLlAM M. RO\VELL. Witnesses:

M. OTTINGER, OBEDIAH WILKs. 

